Nemesis of Decay, Pg 22B
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One day, Rona, you may realize there are path of knowing best untrod. Beware… for to say never is to court fate’s mischief.
And hello Mr. Serial Killer. Too bad for Rona. But wait, wasn’t that guy and his two “friends” fused into one amorphous blob?
Oh…
(I’m not going to even try to guess where things go from here.)
… except, perhaps, to note that it’s a good thing Rona has a friend who understands all of this better than we do…
technogeek- that friend is not in right now though 😛
Albert: I don’t get it. What is the “never” here?
OK, I give up. I have no idea what’s going on. This has gotten a little too strange for me. I mean that I had some idea of what the story was doing but now it’s pretty much unfathomable to the point that I can’t read it anymore. It seems to be a case of WAY too much flashbacks. Can’t take it anymore, sorry.
Maybe this thread will help:
http://www.twilightlady.com/2010/07/01/got-a-question/
I don’t think you’re supposed to know just what happened here, that’s the cliffhanger. Rona’s trying to return senserealm (our world), she doesn’t know her material body’s been hijacked by ratfinks, she’s detoured into that little room where she sees the leprechaun then appears to be stabbed by Jason.
It’s hard to see just what’s happening from that angle, maybe the leprechaun stuck Rona and Jason’s trying to stop him. That same leprechaun shot Perse in subrealm a while ago, since she (he)’s better now it must be hard to hurt an astral form that way so Rona will probably be OK.
That big SFX across the page isn’t a scream as I first thought, but somebody laughing.
How did Perse come to be there and why can’t she(he) help Rona? Who is that leprechaun? We’ll all have to wait ’till the 1st. to find out
I dunno what the rules are for taking someone else’s body for a joyride, but isn’t Jason supposed to be doing just that?
Perhaps this is some sort of battle in Rona’s sub-conscious? I dunno about the leprechaun, but I just don’t trust those little guys. Small hands and all…
That time Perse was shot his healing was helped by the Lady. So I wouldn’t disregard the power of… unattended injuries.
Dream: I was quoting something the Lady said a while ago. http://www.twilightlady.com/2010/02/16/nemesis-of-decay-prologue-pg-3a/
Oh, right, there was a “I will never accept that!”.
I did recognize the quotes, but I did not remember the context.
NOOOOOOOOES! i reached the NOW!
damn u need to work faster! pls? what am i to do on lunchbreak?!
need moar comic!
Well, the vote incentive preview is up (and believe me, it’s a good one), so you can get a little bit moar comic to tide you over till August 1.
btw, lunchbreak from what? No, I really am curious about other people’s webcomic reading habits. (Me, I tend to do pretty much all my web-surfing at home.)
And what are you reading this on? Laptop… phone… tablet? Some other new-fangled gadget?
I read on my desktop after midnight (ET), a habit I started long ago so my old dial-up connection wouldn’t tie up the phone during the day. A Firefox addon called RSS Ticker scans dozens of comics, if a site has new content it appears on a crawl across the screen above the status bar. When I click on a name it loads in a new tab.
If it’s a new page I archive some comics (like this one) in my own comic folder (is this legal?). Don’t worry, I don’t print or copy it or anything and as far as I can remember, and some of them are more than 10 yrs. old, no one has seen them but me.
I wonder if there’s a way to automate this, and I could sit down to read a months worth of comics at a time.
Spooky: I think RSS readers can automate that…
Myself, I read comics like this one wherever and whenever I get the chance. Or at least, wherever I have a computer available. I haven’t quite yet gotten used to web browsing on a smartphone. I guess I should get with the 20th century, shouldn’t I.
“It’s the twenty-first, hon.”